"preengagement" meaning in English

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          "text": "1650s-1660s', Robert Boyle, Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy\nMy pre-engagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write."
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        "Prior engagement or obligation, for example by contract or promise."
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          "obligation",
          "obligation"
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          "contract",
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          "promise",
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